[1920, no earlier than June 4]

Krasin² is doing this, but it is hopeless. Krasin is the most "good-natured," there is no one more good-natured.

1) Lloyd George's negotiations with Krasin have shown with complete clarity that England is helping and will help both the Poles and Wrangel³. There is an unconditional unity of line.

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¹ In a telegram from L. D. Trotsky addressed to the People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs G. V. Chicherin, the situation in the countries of the East was covered.
² L. B. Krasin — official representative of the RSFSR in Great Britain.
³ P. N. Wrangel — general of the Tsarist army, at that time was the commander-in-chief of the White Guard "armed forces of south Russia."

# NOTE TO P. I. POPOV¹
June 18, 1920

Comrade Popov!

This is from the calendar. Could one not find the source of these references? Where do these figures come from?

Your Lenin

¹ P. I. Popov headed the Central Statistical Administration.
It has not been possible to establish what this note concerns.

# NOTE TO N. N. KRESTINSKY
[1920, June, no earlier than 22]

You are right, it is necessary to redo the composition or **appeal the decision to the Politburo**

LENIN COLLECTION

On June 15, 1920 at a session of the Politburo, the question was heard regarding the fact that in Petrograd 200 important institutions were not subordinate to the Petrograd Soviet, but were subordinate directly to the glavki [central administrations]. 

The Politburo adopted a decision: to entrust the Presidium of the VTsIK to appoint a commission on this question, with the provision that into this commission equally should enter comrades working primarily in central institutions, and Petrograders. However, the commission was composed in violation of the Politburo's decision, there turned out to be fewer representatives of the center.

N. N. Krestinsky proposed to protest this in the Politburo. On Krestinsky's proposal Lenin writes the published note.

On June [22], 1920 at a session of the Politburo, changes were introduced into the composition of the commission on establishing mutual relations between central departments and Petrograd institutions.

# LETTER TO G. E. ZINOVIEV
[1920, June, no earlier than 23]

Comrade Zinoviev!

1) W. Herzog¹ is asking me for a letter to the left independents of Germany. Your opinion? I think to give it.

2) He also [is asking for] money for left newspapers. This is already Your matter. Inform me of Your opinion. He is not asking for himself, and personally of course one cannot give it to him.

3) Are there **facts** against this W. Herzog? Apparently not. The [leadership of the] Independent Party of Germany demanded that the Hamburg organization strike out Herzog's name from the list of candidates (for the Reichstag). The Hamburg organization refused.

The right independents are hounding him, **slandering**. This is clear. One cannot be silent and tolerate this. This is a shame. But **facts they do not cite**? They were afraid of a wave of slander.

//He turned out to be 1000 times right against Levi²\\
\\concerning Verschärfung*//

4) And from among the left independent social-democrats of Germany only Herzog holds himself honestly. The left ones in the faction (independent social-democrats in the Reichstag) are only 5 (Brass + Daumig. + Stoecker³ + 2 more), maximum 10!!!

5) The Bulgarian (Goldstein)⁴ is an honest man. I knew him back in Zurich.

6) A resolution of the Executive Committee is needed: complaints and statements to the Executive Committee of the Communist International **all** may submit, but obligatorily with a copy to the Central Committee of the local party.

Lenin

* intensification.

¹ Wilhelm Herzog — representative of the left wing of the Independent Social-Democratic Party of Germany. After the split of the "independents" party in December 1920, Herzog together with the left wing of the ISPD enters the Communist Party of Germany. By the end of the 1920s withdrew from the communist movement. In the 1930s created a number of literary and publicistic works, coming out from democratic, anti-war, and anti-fascist positions.

In May—August 1920 as a guest of the Communist International visited Soviet Russia, met several times with V. I. Lenin.

² Paul Levi — German social-democrat. At the Founding Congress of the Communist Party of Germany was elected to the composition of the Central Committee of the CPG. Delegate of the II Congress of the Comintern, member of the commission on national and colonial questions. In 1920 from the CPG was elected to the Reichstag. In February 1921 left the Central Committee of the CPG, and in April was expelled from the communist party for gross violation of party discipline. Subsequently returned to the social-democratic party.

³ Brass — Otto Brass — one of the prominent representatives of the left wing of the Independent Social-Democratic Party of Germany. At the Unification Congress of the ISPD and the Communist Party of Germany was elected to the Central Committee of the CPG.

Daumig — Ernst Daumig — one of the founders of the Independent Social-Democratic Party of Germany, from August 1919 its chairman. In December 1920 together with the left wing of the "independents" entered the Communist Party of Germany. Delegate of the II Congress of the Comintern. In 1922 returned to the social-democratic party of Germany.

Stoecker — Walter Stoecker — leader of the left wing of the Independent Social-Democratic Party of Germany. From 1920 — member of the Communist Party of Germany, delegate of the II Congress of the Comintern, repeatedly elected to the Central Committee of the CPG. In 1924—1929 was chairman of the communist faction of the Reichstag, in 1929—1931 — secretary of the faction. In 1933 arrested by the Nazis, died in the Buchenwald concentration camp.

⁴ Solomon Goldstein — worker, member of the Bulgarian Social-Democratic Party (tesnyaki). Persecuted by the military authorities of Bulgaria, emigrated to Paris, later moved to Switzerland, to Zurich, where he met with V. I. Lenin. In 1915 joined the party of Bolsheviks. In 1923 came to Soviet Russia and took Soviet citizenship.

# NOTE TO N. N. KRESTINSKY¹
[1920, no later than July 2]

To Comrade Krestinsky:

An Orgburo decision is needed:

All institutions to pull themselves together.

Demand a conference [with] Avanesov + Sklyanski.

¹ The document was written on a report note of the military commissar of the Sochi District addressed to the Chairman of the Council of Defense V. I. Lenin (copy: to the chairman of the VChK F. E. Dzerzhinsky) about the situation in the district and rendering greater attention to the district as an important strategic position. The note reported that there was information about a conspiracy being prepared and directed by the English. The local population was under the influence of the right Social Revolutionaries. Having insignificant forces to guard strategically important gorges, passes, and trails, the military district was in a difficult situation. The note proposed to concentrate all power, military, political, and civil, temporarily in one's hands, otherwise threatened the rapid loss of the district, where the English hoped to create a new base for diverting the forces of the Republic.

# NOTE TO N. N. KRESTINSKY AND G. V. CHICHERIN¹

To Krestinsky and Chicherin: I do not know the text of the treaty. If it cannot be postponed, then you must send me the text of the treaty and Chicherin's review. But I would advise still to drag it out*.

July 10, [1920] Lenin

The note was written under the text of a telephone message from Y. Marchlewski with a request to decide the question of signing a treaty with Lithuania. Marchlewski considered the treaty unacceptable, all the more so since it had not been examined in the Central Committee of the RCP(b).

# DIRECTIVE TO THE SECRETARY¹

Was there not a resolution of the SNK about him?² Find it and give it for review to Comrade Bryukhanov.

July 20, [1920] Lenin

¹ The directive was written on a letter from P. V. Taneev — member of the collegium of the Main Peat Administration, son of the Russian public figure, scholar V. I. Taneev (1840—1921). In his letter addressed to Lenin, P. V. Taneev wrote about the difficult situation of V. I. Taneev and asked to give an instruction to the Klinsky land department not to occupy the father's house, but to preserve intact the century-old park around the house, representing public property, to supply the father with everything necessary for winter; also asked to give permission to order medicines for the father in the Kremlin pharmacy.

See V. I. Lenin. Complete Collection of Works, vol. 50, p. 383.

# EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH P. LEVI¹
[July 25 or 26, 1920]

Ich glaube, es müßten in den Thesen noch folgende Punkte berücksichtigt werden.

1) Gegen den Nationalbolschewismus
2) gegen den Völkerbund
3) über die Nationalitätenfrage in Westeuropa (Deutsch-Österreichischer Anschluß, Triest etc.)
4) über Antisemitismus (der jetzt in Europa eine große Rolle wieder spielt)

Formulieren Sie entsprechende Vorschläge. Prinzipiell einverstanden.

\ / Nicht vergessen eigenartige Aufgabe (die patriot. Gefühle auszunutzen).

TRANSLATION

I think that the theses should include yet the following points.

1) Against National Bolshevism
2) against the League of Nations
3) on the national question in Western Europe (union of Austria with Germany, Trieste, etc.)
4) on anti-Semitism (which now again plays a large role in Europe)

Formulate corresponding proposals. In principle in agreement².

\ / Do not forget about the peculiar task (to utilize patriotic sentiments).

The correspondence with P. Levi took place during the discussion of the draft theses on the national and colonial question, written by V. I. Lenin.

Lenin Collection XXXVIII